Every filing period on record, as reported. One column per filed period — a period with no column is a period with no filing, not a zero.
Basis · Amendments and terminations supersede the original report for the same registrant, client and period, so a revised quarter is counted once at its latest filed value. Registration-only filings carry no activity money and are excluded from these totals.
Who lobbies for them
Every outside firm that has filed on this client's behalf, by fees reported.
Keira FranzFranz Consulting, LLCCovered position: Senior Professional Staff, Senate Agriculture CommitteeLegislative Staff, Office of Senator Bob Dole47 filingsthrough 2024
This record groups every filed spelling of the client's name into one entity, so "MERCK & CO., INC." and "MERCK & CO INC" read as the same company. The grouping is the client's normalized name — organizations that file under genuinely different names appear separately. Handle: national-association-of-wheat-growers.
$380K
fees reported
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Reported as lobbying expenses
Money reported as spent on lobbying rather than as a fee paid to an outside firm. See the full list.
Reading this · LD-2 reports a hired firm's fee and a registrant's reported expenses on separate lines and never both on one filing, so the two lists above are different quantities and are ranked separately rather than against each other. Firm names link to their own record as the firms chapter lands.
TRD
34 filings
$754K on those filings
Budget/Appropriations
BUD
33 filings
$694K on those filings
Taxation/Internal Revenue Code
TAX
21 filings
$484K on those filings
Transportation
TRA
19 filings
$454K on those filings
Energy/Nuclear
ENG
9 filings
$70K on those filings
Trucking/Shipping
TRU
7 filings
$350K on those filings
Commodities (big ticket)
CDT
7 filings
$350K on those filings
Chemicals/Chemical Industry
CHM
7 filings
$350K on those filings
Food Industry (safety, labeling, etc.)
FOO
7 filings
$350K on those filings
Fuel/Gas/Oil
FUE
7 filings
$350K on those filings
Note · A filing names one to several issue areas and reports a single dollar figure for the period, so the same money appears beside every issue that filing declares. The dollar column is therefore spend on filings that named this issue — it is not a split of the total, and these figures sum above it. Filing counts do not double-count.
119th Congress
Establishing the congressional budget for the United States Government for fiscal year 2025 and setting forth the appropriate budgetary levels for fiscal years 2026 through 2034.
2 filingsthrough 2025
H.R. 1207119th CongressTo transfer the functions, duties, responsibilities, assets, liabilities, orders, determinations, rules, regulations, permits, grants, loans, contracts, agreements, certificates, licenses, and privileges of the United States Agency for International Development relating to implementing and administering the Food for Peace Act to the Department of Agriculture.1 filingthrough 2025
How these are found · Bill references are extracted from the free-text activity description each filing writes, then matched to the Congress in session that filing year. A reference we can't match to a bill on file is still shown, unlinked — we cite what the filing said rather than guess at what it meant. Naming a bill is not a position on it: LD-2 records that a client lobbied on the bill, never which side.
Covered position: House Approps Committee; CoS of Rep. Marcy Kaptur
25 filingsthrough 2026
Mark Steven GaedeNational Association of Wheat GrowersCovered position: Confidential Assistant, Acting Deputy Undersecretary (USDA)25 filingsthrough 2013
Jacob L WestlinNational Association of Wheat Growers23 filingsthrough 2025
Philip C KarstingOlsson, Frank, Weeda, Terman & Matz, PCCovered position: Administrator, Foreign Agricultural Service; CoS of Sen. Herb Kohl22 filingsthrough 2026
Charles StenholmOlsson, Frank, Weeda, Terman & Matz, PCCovered position: House of Representative (TX-17th district)22 filingsthrough 2018
Jim PalmerNational Association of Wheat GrowersCovered position: CEO19 filingsthrough 2015
Eden ShiferawOlsson, Frank, Weeda, Terman & Matz, PC17 filingsthrough 2018
Brooke Shupe AppletonNational Association of Wheat GrowersCovered position: Lobbyist16 filingsthrough 2014
Peter MatzOlsson, Frank, Weeda, Terman & Matz, PC14 filingsthrough 2018
Will StaffordNational Association of Wheat GrowersCovered position: Lobbyist14 filingsthrough 2014
Dana PetersonNational Association of Wheat Growers13 filingsthrough 2012
Craig BerningNational Association of Wheat Growers10 filingsthrough 2019
Jane DemarchiNational Association of Wheat Growers10 filingsthrough 2012
Daren CoppockNational Association of Wheat Growers8 filingsthrough 2009
Eric SteinerOlsson, Frank, Weeda, Terman & Matz, PCCovered position: Senior Professional Staff, Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry; Chief of Staff, Food and Nutrition Service, USDA; Associate Administrator for Special Nutrition Programs, Food and Nutrition Service, USDA7 filingsthrough 2026
Jack Ryan LongNational Association of Wheat Growers7 filingsthrough 2025
Taylor WilliamsonNational Association of Wheat Growers7 filingsthrough 2023
Julia JohnsonOlsson, Frank, Weeda, Terman & Matz, PC6 filingsthrough 2021
Keira FranzNational Association of Wheat GrowersCovered position: Lobyist6 filingsthrough 2015
Eric J SteinerNational Association of Wheat GrowersCovered position: USDA Chief of Staff, Food, Nutrition, and Consumer Services6 filingsthrough 2011
Cori WittmanNational Association of Wheat GrowersCovered position: Legislative Assistant, Senator Larry Craig6 filingsthrough 2010
Ben Edward DashOlsson, Frank, Weeda, Terman & Matz, PC5 filingsthrough 2026
